[meteorite-list] Hole in Red Rock Lounge Roof Still a Mystery ?????

From: Gary Chase <garychase_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 08:23:13 -0800
Message-ID: <COL106-W40A1ACB8E667A105C1FF29D2730_at_phx.gbl>

"Robert Ward drove through the night from Arizona to investigate"?
 
I don't understand. Aren't there meteorite dealers and collectors closer to the sight to check it out? Anne? Matt?
 
 
Gary

 
> From: bcmeteorites at gmail.com
> To: mpg4444 at gmail.com; Meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
> Date: Tue, 5 Jan 2010 06:39:00 -0700
> Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Hole in Red Rock Lounge Roof Still a Mystery
>
> This link is for the article on the front page of the local Colorado Springs
> paper "The Gazette" this morning with picture of Robert Ward holding the ceiling tile with the
> "mystery" hole in it.
>
> http://www.gazette.com/articles/guy-91739-bar-heard.html
>
> Bob Falls
> colorado Springs, CO
>
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>
> http://www.krdo.com/Global/story.asp?S=11755241
>
> Hole in Red Rock Lounge Roof Still a Mystery
>
> By: Stacey Kaiser
> s.kaiser at krdotv.com
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>
> COLORADO SPRINGS - Was it lightning, some sort of space rock, or ice
> from a plane? Fire investigators cannot rule anything out as the
> cause of a hole in the roof of Red Rock Lounge at 31st and Colorado
> Avenue in Colorado Springs.
>
> "I saw some insulation sitting on the table and I looked up and
> there's a hole in my ceiling," said Red Rock Lounge owner Karol
> Sandvig. Sandvig noticed the hole when she first walked into her bar,
> then she saw a note from her bartender. "Karol, I had to call the
> cops because something came through the roof and there was a loud
> boom," said a note from Bartender Tammy Newland.
>
> Firefighters got the call at 11:30pm Wednesday. They told Newland the
> boom was heard from their station a few streets away. "It scared
> everybody. Everybody was off their seats pretty quick. I don't think
> I've seen some of the people in here move that quick," said Newland.
>
> But the big question is, what caused this massive boom and 3-inch hole
> in the ceiling? "We tried to rule out things such as lightning,
> something falling from the sky like a piece of space rock like a small
> meteorite and we weren't able to rule out anything," said Colorado
> Springs Fire Department Battalion Chief Steven Dubay.
>
> STORMTRACKER 13 Chief Meteorologist Matt Meister says he was at the
> station until about 1:00AM and did not see any lightning. It could be
> a space rock, but investigators have seen no sign of a rock. And the
> hole is too big to be from a bullet.
>
> Sandvig says the hole in her ceiling will not ruin their New Year's
> Eve celebration. The landlord said he will be out to fix the hole.
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